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Is responsibility a virtue or akin to one? Dialogical responsibility best integrates key aspects of responsibility in three ways. This integration serves to weave dialogical responsibility into the fabric of an ethically good life.

If we lift the concept of necessity out of the context of …determination by something external, then…necessity and freedom coincide….

—Jürgen Moltmann

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Koehn, D. (2019). Conclusion. In: Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16737-0_6

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